The president in a statement by his Special Adviser on
Medau and Publicity, Femi Adesina said “In three and a half
years, we have improved tremendously on what we met. We
are trying to do infrastructure. No matter which part of the
country you come from, you will see the efforts we are
making in terms of roads; we are trying to fix rails, we are
trying to do power, through the use of gas and solar.
“If you note what we have done in these three and a half
years, you will not regret voting this administration into
power.”
Buhari also stated that Nigeria was doing very well in
agriculture “as the country was about to attain food
sufficiency and security.”
He said that he had explained in details while presenting the
2019 budget estimates, the earnings and expenditure and
therefore expected the elite to understand the position of
the government on certain issues, adding that it is the
responsibility of the government to look after the employed
as well as the unemployed.
He urged the youths to start preparing themselves to lead
the country.
“There is a tendency for you to think that you can do better
than anybody , but it is very good for you to know the facts
that leadership entails,” he said.
Buhari also assured the Labour leaders that, having been in
positions of leadership at various stages in life, and with the
experience, he means well for Nigerians and indeed,
workers, and should be allowed to fix infrastructure so that
more Nigerians could be taken out of the poverty cycle.
“I am totally loyal to this country. Whatever I do is in the
interest of the ordinary people especially those who do not
have the benefit of being educated like you, and are just
trusting whoever is leading them,” he said.
He expressed gratitude to the students for appreciating
some of the things his administration has been able to put in
place and called on them to mobilise support for
government, as it strives to make Nigeria a better place.
However, In their remarks, the students, led by the
president, Comrade Danielson Bamidele Akpan, expressed
appreciation of the efforts of the administration, especially
in the transformation of the transportation sector as well as
the decimation of terrorists in the Northeast.
They, however, requested the government to intervene in
the incessant strikes in the education sector; involve more
youths in governance; and look into the plight of students in
different institutions who have been expelled for ‘political’
reasons.
